Workforce Development Meeting Notes
September 1, 2004; 4PM, Peter B. Lewis Building, Room 123
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Assignment:
Write 2 - 3 paragraphs about what you think of the Workforce Development Map. Where do you see opportunities? What are your experiences? Where do you see your work on the map? What ideas would you like to see implemented? What solutions do you think should be prioritized? Where do you think the gaps are? Why do you think things are the way they are?
Attendees:
Ed Morrison, Paul Oyask, Jack Riccuito, Betsey Merkel, John Eland, Nate Phillips, Nancy Cronin, Jay Miller, Susan Altshuler, Adeld DiMarco? Kious, Dave Megenhardt, Krsity Fann, Ernest Johnson, Herb Crowther, Maurice Stevens
Opening question:
What can REI and the universities do to support workforce development?
The group is focused on:
- the city and county merging
- the Workforce Development Summit Sept 9th
Questions:
- How can we support a whole series of interventions and provide space for eveyone's initiative?
- How can we help to get everyone on the same page?
- How can we get away from the blame game?
- What do we need to be dong collectively?
- The situation now is unbalanced for everyone. Only the communities who figure this out and work together will be ahead.
Suggestions of who is doing things differently and is successful:
- The Alternative School - Jay Miller...
- East Tech High School, Dwight Hollins, Program on financial...
- Phoenix
- Learn about MaryBeth? Matthews program in the schools
- National Dropout Prevention Center in South Carolina
- John Eland is reaching out in Mayfield
- Gates Foundation and the efforts to support entrepreneurship
The situation:
- A general escalation of deteriorating conditions
- Cleveland is not eligible for certain federal money because it is no longer a large city
Next steps:
- How can we serve a role in making change?
- Start thinking as a collective group
- Put together a white paper
Some solutions and models:
- Get comfortable with entrepreneurial thinking - Herb
- That we have a college track and a technical track is outdated - Ed
- The Skills Pyramid creates a language that employers and trainers can talk to each other
- Have training programs for counselors and parents
Our White Paper:
- Aimed at other practitioners like us who are looking for answers
- This is a way to bring people together across lines and create a network of the willing
- How do you identify opportunitys for collaboration?
- What are the careers a group like this could support in a living, breathing document?
- How will we implement this iformation? In an open dialgoue, an open systems approach
Follow Up & Things We Need to Do:
- Communicate to the working poor
- Communicate to parents
- Work together collaboratively
- Convene together - CSU Convocation Center?
- MOVE FORWARD - Ernest Johnson
- Over the next ten years we can figure this out
- Has anyone done an exit survey about why kids drop out?
- What do you want to talk about?
Requests from the group:
- Would like more open dialogue
- Want a long term process
- Go to different forums and share our white paper
- Create a sense of urgency
- Lobby our paper; this creates a sense of urgency
See you on the 15th!
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